INSKEEP: But they avoided saying they were onto a bigger conspiracy.ĬRIBBS: Exactly. I mean, Toronto police have been laying charges gradually. Were there coordinated arrests in multiple countries?ĬRIBBS: It wasn't like a bust. INSKEEP: So help us understand how this investigation was wrapped up and became public. There were, literally, tens of thousands of names that came out of the computer hard drive at that Toronto warehouse. The investigation is not over, we should say that. INSKEEP: Do the police believe they've caught everyone?ĬRIBBS: The police believe they have not caught everyone. So it's individuals who independently sought out the videos that came out of a warehouse in Toronto. I mean in the United States alone, 330 children were rescued, you know. element of the investigation here, which was vast. There's a Harvard pediatrician who was caught up in the U.S. Can you help me understand what kind of network this was? Is it an organization? Is it just people in different countries who were file-sharing, buying and selling things from each other? What was going on here?ĬRIBBS: Yeah, we talk about a child pornography ring, but what we're talking about is people who are not linked in any real way. INSKEEP: So the tentacles of this led overseas. And he stumbled across this massive cache of child porn, and was able to track that stash to a man named Brian Way. Separate occurrence in 2010, we fast-forward - a senior officer at Toronto Sex Crimes Unit is doing what he does a lot of the time, which is to go undercover anonymously online, and trade or purchase child pornography. They warned him, and they left him alone. They felt, at the time, it was close to the edge. And they actually looked at it, way back in 2004 and it was billed as a legal site showcasing artistic films featuring nude boys. Way and the previous incarnation of this website, and it's because they had complaints. So back as early as 2004, police became aware of Mr. INSKEEP: Now, let's just mention he hasn't been convicted yet so we have to say he's innocent until proven guilty, but based on what the police say and what the police believe, how did evidence begin to lead toward this man?ĬRIBBS: It's an interesting story. And he was at the center of what police believe to be one of the largest commercial child pornography operations they've ever busted. What police discovered is that that warehouse was home to tens of thousands of videos, which they certainly alleged to be child pornography, which appeared on a website called which sold videos to men around the world, more than 90 countries. The bank teller hired him to videotape her wedding - sort of an upstanding guy, according to everyone in the neighborhood. He got up every day, went to a nondescript warehouse office on the west end of the city, went to the Tim Horton's virtually every morning, got coffee and a doughnut came back to his office, disappeared behind the mirrored glass door was friendly with the mailman and his neighbors. ROBERT CRIBBS: Brian Way is a 42-year-old man in Toronto, lived a very normal life. Cribb says the center of the network was that single suspect in Toronto. Toronto Star reporter Robert Cribb and two colleagues were allowed to track that investigation for about a year before police announced their work last week. With the help of police in other nations, they quietly began linking him to a global network of people trafficking in child pornography. Years ago, police in Toronto, Canada, began tracking a suspect in their city. People with kids in the room may wish to skip the next six minutes. Some people may find the subject unsettling.
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